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Topic: Nobody Thinks They're The Bad Guy (Read 1397 times)

Nobody thinks they’re the bad guy.Nobody wakes up in the morning, stretches out the crick in their neck, rubs the gunk out of their eyes, and thinks to themselves “Welp, time to go make the world a worse place than it was before I got here! What a great day to be evil.” It doesn’t happen. Nobody, nowhere, believes they’re the bad guy.There are people who know they are doing bad things, of course. And if you talk with them about it they will not deny that what they are doing is bad, but they will tell you at length how it is necessary. They’ll tell you how they have come to be in this terrible position of being forced to do bad in the world, despite the fact that they are, in their hearts, a good person. They may be very convincing. They may even be right.There are people who do not see what they are doing as evil in the first place, no matter how terrible it may seem to an outsider. These people do not see themselves as victims, but rather as warriors. They are fighting the good fight in their own minds, and they surround themselves with people who believe the same, or at least do nothing to challenge that belief. They are operating with a reality-interpreting grid that allows them to see some humans as “less,” or some human behavior as “unacceptable in any circumstances.” They live in a world where the stakes are high and time is short, and they are doing their part to make the world better.They may be wrong and they may be crazy, but they still never think of themselves as the bad guy.And this isn’t to say never fight back, it’s not to say you are required by some law of bipedalism to accept their opinion of themselves. This isn’t a demand that you never give up on anybody, no matter how foul their deeds or ideas. It’s just a reminder, just some information, because you will be more effective in the fight if you accept all of the intelligence available to you, that you will be in a better position if you build a more accurate internal model of your foes.Keep moving. Fight good fights. And pray to whatever gods will listen that the bad guyisn’t you.

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I like this. I really like it. Although I do consider myself one of the bad guys so maybe my opinion is biased or invalid or something.

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Not actually a meat product.Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCKAwful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart ContagionOctomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairmanwalking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it’s not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn’t matter." -- Max Tegmark

I like this. I really like it. Although I do consider myself one of the bad guys so maybe my opinion is biased or invalid or something.

That actually raises a good point. I do have the whole "we're the bad guys" thing.

To me, it's related to the - smart people doubt themselves whereas stupid people have stupid self confidence - thing. A default position of "I'm an evil wanker but I'd like to be less so." seems preferable to me than "I'm doing all this insane evil bullshit for all the right reasons and if I die I get cake."

When I hear either those kinds of statements, mostly it's wankers on both sides with edgelords on one side and WBC on the other. The exceptions to this rule are invariably self confessed evil fuckers who aren't necessarily proud of the fact and might not broadcast it all that loud.

I'm wary of the right thing. I kinda try to do it but I'm always aware I've been wrong before. Believing in a right thing limits it's ability to become a wrong thing, which right things have a tendency to do from time to time.

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Not actually a meat product.Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCKAwful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart ContagionOctomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairmanwalking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it’s not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn’t matter." -- Max Tegmark

I like this. I really like it. Although I do consider myself one of the bad guys so maybe my opinion is biased or invalid or something.

That actually raises a good point. I do have the whole "we're the bad guys" thing.

Being a good citizen is only a good thing if you live in a good society.

The world doesn't need good guys right now. We have good guys falling out of every orifice, and we are fucking the dog and wondering why everyone is staring.

The world needs P3NT and ECH and YOU all fucked up on cheap whiskey and eyeballing the good guys with very little charity in mind.

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" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Everybody has a story to justify their actions. I did it for the "greater good." I didn't do this because it's not "really needed". It's "not my responsibility".

I think deep down we do know when we're being the bad guy, unless we're completely oblivious. But we'll always have a handy story to rationalise our actions.

"If you have to hide it, you're doing bad things."- Some German bastard 200 years ago.

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" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Listen carefully. I don't have much time, and I only have 462 characters left. I'm a scientist from Area 52 (Area 51 was used to draw attention from Area 52, where the aliens were ACTUALLY stored) who was working on neural interfacing with networked devices. In an experiment gone wrong, I accidentally uploaded my mind to the internet. In the 2 seconds I had before my mind scrambled itself with the world's network traffic, I was able to store this snippet in this random internet signature. If you're reading this, let the world know tha

I remember reading somewhere that a major sign of being an evil bastard is never stopping to worry you might be one. Obviously worrying about it doesn't make you a saint, but you're less likely to fuck up if you're stopping to check your moral maths.

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"It isn't who you know, it's who you know, if you know what I mean. And I think you do."

I remember reading somewhere that a major sign of being an evil bastard is never stopping to worry you might be one. Obviously worrying about it doesn't make you a saint, but you're less likely to fuck up if you're stopping to check your moral maths.

Yep! This is where self-checking comes in. People tend to be very resistant to self-checking, though, as the "dig your heels in and screech" principle illustrates.

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“I’m guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk,” Charles Wick said. “It was very complicated.”